john-dev - Re: problem with signal handling in core john (was: [core john] [Johnny] Windows event loop)

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Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 16:10:39 +0300
From: Aleksey Cherepanov <lyosha@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: problem with signal handling in core john (was: [core
 john] [Johnny] Windows event loop)

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 03:23:34PM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> 
> > On May 13, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Aleksey Cherepanov <lyosha@...nwall.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:52:20PM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On May 13, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Aleksey, Shinnok -
> >>> 
> >>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:31:18PM +0300, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> >>>> The possible problems:
> >>>> 
> >>>> - SetConsoleCtrlHandler(NULL, FALSE); may be needed to enable ctrl-c
> >>>> correctly, I guess john core wants to handle ctrl-c,
> >>> 
> >>> I haven't been following the discussion closely, I'm not into Windows
> >>> programming, and IIRC it's been something between 15 and 20 years since
> >>> I put the SetConsoleCtrlHandler() calls currently in signals.c in there.
> >>> So I don't really know whether/which change might be needed.  However,
> >>> last time I checked, which wasn't that long ago, Ctrl-C still worked
> >>> fine to correctly terminate "john" on Windows.  Does it no longer work
> >>> in console on some combination of Windows and Cygwin versions?  Or is
> >>> the problem specific to just usage from Johnny?
> >> 
> >> The patch maintains event processing(including CTRL_C) under the console(CMD) while also allowing for Johnny to properly terminate JtR instances via the same CTRL_C_EVENT.
> > 
> > As I understand from previous mails, john work under cmd.exe well, but
> > when it is called from a program that disabled handling of ctrl-c for
> > itself (like Johnny, but not limited to it) john inherits that
> > disabled handling and does not enable it. Shinnok - am I right?
> > 
> 
> That is correct.

So theoretically johnny can solve it on its own: enable ctrl-c
handling before each calling of john and disable after it, can't it?

Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Aleksey Cherepanov

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